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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Jusr re-read Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

    Hunger Games is a pale imitation
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    The i newspaper. (and very good it is IMO).
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Sound of the City - the rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett. Re-reading after many years.

    Quite dense in parts but still a good read for anyone interested in the origins and growth of rock and roll
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Sound of the City - the rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett. Re-reading after many years.

    Quite dense in parts but still a good read for anyone interested in the origins and growth of rock and roll
    Very very good book
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    edited April 2012
    Great Expectations
    First time I've read it since I was 12 - forgotten how much I like Dickens humour
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    Novecento - Allesandro Barrico, a monologue adapted for the brilliant film 'The legend of 1900'. A great read.
  • charlton villager
    charlton villager Posts: 286
    I like historical novels. I got really hooked on Simon Scarrow's Roman army books. Read them all. I am now finding it hard to get a book to enjoy that has the same page turning, cant put down quality.

    Any suggestions please??
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Bernard Cornwall's Ulthred books set in pre-Norman England are good page turners.
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    Great Expectations
    First time I've read it since I was 12 - forgotten how much I like Dickens humour
    I am a massive dickens fan that is my fav!!

    Yesterday after having it in my possession for ages from when it was suggested on the 'autism' thread I started reading 'The Curious Incident of the dog In the Night Time' I am over halfway through already, amazing book.
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Pretty Vacant A History of Punk - Phil Strongman
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
  • NorfWestlondonAddick
    NorfWestlondonAddick Posts: 17
    The Blond Knight of Germany.(Erich Hartmann). A Pilot's story 'from the other side'. Amazing book about the most successful fighter pilot of all time. Handed himself over to the Americans, who promptly passed him over to the Russians, who tried him as a 'War Criminal' (365 russian planes shot down, thats why!).Spent many years in Gulag. Took a personal request by new German Chancellor to get him out, where he was treated as a Celebrity in America by the U.S.A.F. Became Head of U.N. Fighter Arm in post-war Europe. The most un-put-downable book I've read.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    I like historical novels. I got really hooked on Simon Scarrow's Roman army books. Read them all. I am now finding it hard to get a book to enjoy that has the same page turning, cant put down quality.

    Any suggestions please??
    My favourite military history novels are "The Last English King" by Julian Rathbone (battle of Hastings and the events leading up to it) and Gates of Fire by (I think) Steven Pressman (Spartans killing Persians). If you like non-military stuff as well Hilary Mantel has written some great books - Wolf Hall or course but also A Place of Greater Safety (French Revolution). Secret River by Kate Grenville (early Australia) is also fantastic.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    Enjoyed the Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. A bit over-elaborate and forced in his writing, but imaginative, interesting and funny. Very good for a debut.

    Currently half way throguh the Lunar Men, a group biography of Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Josiah Wedgewood and others who were members of a science society. I love that period of history, so much innovation - steam, electricity, canals, gases.

    Also reading Knockemstiff, collection of short stories by Donald Pollock all set in a small town southern Ohio. Brillaint, spare writign reminiscent of Hemingway at his best. A bit disturbing though - everyone seems to be a wife-beater/speed freak or similar.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970's - Dave Haslam

    Excellent look back at the musical and social history of the '70's ...for those who grew up then, it's a great read ...and interesting for those who would like to know ...really enjoyed this.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,968
    All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings - a complete history of WW2.

    Though I know the broad sweep of that war I have never studied it in any detail, and this book deals with all the important elements and is critical of much of the tactics and decision making on the British side. Abut 1/4 through, and enkoying it, though wishing the font was a bit bigger!


  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,790
    I like historical novels. I got really hooked on Simon Scarrow's Roman army books. Read them all. I am now finding it hard to get a book to enjoy that has the same page turning, cant put down quality.

    Any suggestions please??
    Bernard Cornwall books are good. Also, Conn Iggulden has written some good historical novels about Genghis Khan and also the Roman era. Wilbur Smith's novels about the forming of South Africa are a good read.

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    The Drop - Michael Connelly's latest. Good as ever.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings is excellent as well. Barbarossa by Alan Clarke is breathtaking in it's scope. Both have their flaws, more so with Clarke partly due to when he wrote in 1965 he didn't have access to papers. Neither are pro historians but make a mockery of Ambrose's pathetic, albeit readable, moronic grasp of strategy and reality.

    Just started Jon Ronson's The Psycopath Test, he writes in easy style. Quite interesting subject.
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  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,647
    I like historical novels. I got really hooked on Simon Scarrow's Roman army books. Read them all. I am now finding it hard to get a book to enjoy that has the same page turning, cant put down quality.

    Any suggestions please??
    You might like Caesars Gallic Wars and Rome at War by Kate Gilliver for a bit of background to the novels.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,647
    Poundland in Charlton has got a good selection of books now.
    Military,travel, novels etc.
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    Villager, try Ruth Downie's Ruso Roman mystery series.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    The History of the NME ... great book. Everything from the beginning and then through the period I remember NME the most ... 70's / 80's ... with Charles Shaar Murray, Tony Parsons, Mick Farren, Julie Burchill, Danny Baker, etc.

    Fascinating look at the magazine in the context of a number of decades.
  • redcarter
    redcarter Posts: 1,010
    Danny Wallace - Charlotte Street
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited May 2012
    Just finished "The Ball is Round, a global history of football" David Goldblatt.

    Bloody amazing, bloody heavy going in parts. Took about 4 / 5 weeks.

    Now reading "Solar" - Ian McEwan - for light relief...
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    It's not what you think - Chris Evans' first autobiography.
  • Wilma
    Wilma Posts: 1,618
    It's not what you think - Chris Evans' first autobiography.
    Really enjoyed this, thought it was really funny and loved the Top 10s at the beginning of each chapter. The second book is also worth reading.

  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    Read a fantastic book called room recently. Definitely recommend it, few hundred pages-couldn't put it down
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Read a fantastic book called room recently. Definitely recommend it, few hundred pages-couldn't put it down
    ... by Emma Donoghue ... yes that is some book, hard to put down

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